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Printer contrast test

Print at 100% or Actual size. Turn off Fit to page. Then measure the 100 mm bar.

This pattern is a visual aid. Nozzle cleaning and hardware alignment stay in the printer’s own menu or driver.

What this checks

Printer contrast test. Patches from white to black, plus white type on black.

The chart is for your eyes. A phone photo of the chart is not a measurement. Room light changes it.

A browser can draw a page and hand it to the print dialog. It cannot talk to the printhead, read a toner chip, or start a cleaning cycle. Those commands belong to the printer and its driver. If a button on this site cleaned your nozzles, it would be pretending.

How to use it

When a length matters, print at 100 percent or Actual size. Turn off Fit to page, Shrink to fit, and Scale to fit. Then put a ruler on the 100 mm bar. If that bar is not 100 mm, every other judgment about size is early. The preview on the screen is scaled to fit the window. Only the paper counts.

The screen is red, green, and blue light. The printer is ink or toner on a sheet. They will not match, and this site does not build an ICC profile. Use the patches to see whether a color is missing or wildly shifted, not to approve a brand color.

A gap in a single color row points at that color: the nozzles, the cartridge, or a setting that turned the color off. A gap that cuts every color in the same place can be a scratch, a dirty roller, or damage in the scan you photographed. A whole page that is pale is a different problem again: draft mode, a low supply, or the wrong paper type. One sheet does not name the part.

What it cannot prove

On a laser printer, a mark that repeats down the page often matches the circumference of a drum, a roller, or a fuser. This page will not tell you which. Write down the distance between repeats and stop there. On an inkjet, a thin white line through one color is more often a nozzle. Do not swap those stories.

If nothing prints, the pattern is irrelevant. Check the queue, the selected printer, and whether the device is paused or offline. Then print the operating system’s own test page. A page from Windows, macOS, or the printer panel that also fails is not a problem with this website.

Borderless printing is a printer feature, not a browser feature. Edge bars that stop short of the knife are the unprintable margin or a scale setting. Forcing borderless in the driver can also scale the page. Measure the bar after you change that setting.

Questions

Why does yellow look different on screen? Screen yellow is light. Printed yellow is ink on paper. Judge the paper.

Are the skin patches accurate? They are reference swatches for a visual check, not a measurement of a person.

Will a photo of the chart diagnose the printer? Light in the room changes the photo. Prefer the paper in your hand.